At a major Las Vegas casino a young dealer named Paul
was blatantly peeking at the next card to be dealt,
ostensibly for the benefit of a pretty female player
who was toking heavily. Paul had the audacity to call
for insurance before taking a hole card, peek at the
top card, and then deal himself a natural after his
female friend put up an insurance bet! I did not catch
him dealing seconds, but the peek was obvious. It
seemed like just "good-natured" cheating,
but it is kind of scary to think that a dealer can
be so blatant and not worry about being caught. When
the girl hit a hard seventeen with a $5 toke riding
on the hand and caught a 10 to bust her hand, Paul
looked at her hand, said "You can't hit a seventeen,"
and put the 10 in the discard rack, handing her back
her seventeen.

In
limit games, all bets proceed in increments, or multiples,
of the limit. More than one structure exists in limit
games, but one thing is always true: Bets always proceed
in equal increments on each round. The most common
structure is two-tier.

For example, in a $2-4 hold'em game, bets proceed
in the first two rounds in multiples of $2 and in
the second two rounds in multiples of $4. The first
player to enter a pot has two choices: open for $2
(limp) or $4 (raise). If the first player opens for
$2, the next player has three choices: fold, call
$2, or raise to $4. If the first player opens for
a raise to $4, the next player still has three choices:
fold, call $4, or raise to $6. Each player in turn
has those three choices: fold, call the preceding
bet, or raise by $2.